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Useful SQUIGLY Translation. Chinese bmp/jpg to text to english

I have been looking at taobao for nice cEVE accounts to buy, but I have hit my head against the wall that is squigly writing.
All of the accounts on that site have images of their skills, not text, so google translate is out

However, with a bit of googling, I found a free program that does OCR on chinese images so you can copy paste the output into google translate.

Open COCR and do File->Load image and point it to inverted.
Now move the square over the character, press + and - on keyboard to shrink the square to the character. Click it, and choose the matching symbol on the bar above the image. Once you have a line done, you can copy paste it from the right pane to google translate.

btw, buying on taobao is more expensive than buying on the bbs.
But when you contact the seller on the bbs , everyone upload their accounts to the shop on taobao ,then sells you the account on taobao, then always deletes it from taobao.
So searching on taobao can not search these tradition.

One important reason that you can get wonderful char on the bbs costing less is that some of the sellers do not want to sell the account to the account-merchant.
So they like to talk to the buyer to be sure that.

Are the accounts on the BBS full accounts or character transfer? Do you buy the account (user and password) or just the character to transfer to your existing account?

I'm assuming you speak fluent Chinese mono?
Would you like to act as an agent for me and help me buy an account on cEVE? I could pay a little isk or dollars if required. It is very difficult trying to negotiate a sale when I don't speak Chinese. :<